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the spiders were removed and at others they were not. " In 

 answer to the question suggested in the title we can only say 

 that in most cases where the spiders were disturbed the owner 

 was quick to detect it and frequently resented it. But, since, 

 in her anger, she often threw away part or all of her own prey, 

 we cannot determine whether or not she recognized her own, or 

 merely responded, with alarm, to any meddling about her home." 



FOOD PROCURING ACTIVITIES 



Awati (4) describes the feeding behavior of the apple sucker 

 and of the pear sucker; Clausen (24), of certain aphid feeding 

 Coccinellidae ; Cleare (25), of a butterfly injurious to the cocoa- 

 nut palm; Funkhouser (44) ,of Vanduzea arcuata Say; Gillette 

 and Bragg (46), of some Colorado aphids with alternating feed- 

 ing habits; Girault (48), of the aphid-eating Adalia 15-punctata; 

 H. A. B. (52), of a fruit-fly attacking papaws; Haddon (53), 

 of the larvae of the glow-worm Lampyris noctiluca; Hewitt (61), 

 of the stable-fly; Rau (102), of Dichromorpha viridis; Shannon 

 (108), of syrphid flies; Williams (127), of the pea thrips; and 

 Marcovitch (89), a mite, a chalcid fly, a fruit fly, and a caterpillar 

 that feeds on the juniper berry. 



Bromley (17) gives an extensive list of the prey of eighteen 

 species of asilids. 



Sanders (105) records the fact that the larva of the fruit-fly 

 (Xylena bethunei) eats the pupae of Malacosoma district and M. 

 americana. 



Girault (47) relates the case of a bird-bug (Cimex hirudinia) 

 which forsook the swallows of the chimney for the people sleep- 

 ing in the adjoining room. 



By dissections, Wheeler (126) demonstrated that the food 

 of the New Zealand glow-worm consists of insects. He thinks 

 the larvae catch both creeping and flying hexapods in their 

 glutinous webs. 



Richardson (103) found the larvae of a wasp dwelling in pas- 

 sageways in the galls of Holocaspis globosus of the oak and feed- 

 ing upon plant lice. From this he concludes that the adults 

 attend to the young throughout the entire larval period. It is 

 unfortunate that the colony was not kept under observation 

 long enough to verify this conclusion. 



By raising fleas in petri dishes, Lyon (82) discovered that the 



